Improved iotynge and bedstead



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AMOS R. HARPER AND CHARLES B. DAKE, OF HOBART, NDIANA.

Letters Patent N 98,056, dated December 21,1869.

Theischedule referred to in these Letters Patent andmalring paxt of the same.

To all whom 'it 'may concern Be it` known that we, Anios R. HARPER and CHARLES B. DARE, of Hobart, in the `county of Lake, and State of indiana, have invented an Improved Combined Lounge or Settee and Bedstead; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making' part ot' this specication,

Figure l' being a transverse vertical section of the article arranged as a settee or sofa.

Figure 2, a plan of the same, arranged for a lounge or single bedstead, tbemattress being removed.

Figure 3, a side view of a movable portion of' the head-board or foot-board, by which the bedstead is widened. i

Figure 4, a plan View of the bedstead widened to a double bedstead. v

Figure 5, an end elevation of the same, as in 4..

Figure b', a View of a portion oi' the bottom ofthe hedstead, widened as' in iigs. 4 and 5.

Lilie letters designate corresponding parts in all of the figures.

Our invention consists in a peculiar construction of a hedstead, so that by the removal or insertion of movable sections inthe head-board and foot-board, and `the contraction orextension of the bottom, either a single or double bedstcad may be formed, and by a particular construction and arrangement of a mattress therewith, a sofa or scttee, with hack and scat, is produced; or they form, together', a complete lounge, or a single or double hed.

The head-board and foot-board are each divided into tiro permanent parts, A Afwhich, when brought together, make up the width forfa single hed, lounge, settee, or sofa, as indicated in figs. 1 and 2; and the bottom has two corresponding portions, B B, which similarly compose the entire bottom for the said articles of' furniture.

These parts A A and B B` may also be freely separated to the proper width for a double bedstead, and the spaces therehy'left open between the parts A A are iilled by the two movable, portions or sections a a, which -have a construction corresponding in appearance with the said parts, and iit accurately' thereto. v The space opened between the ports B B, of the bottom, is more conveniently lled by extension-bars or4 slats, h b, which, when the bedstead is narrowed, side under cross-bars c c, of the permanent parts, and through innerlongitudinal rails, d d.

There may bef enlargements, f f, (or their equivalents,) at the ends oi'thesc extension-bars, to prevent their drawingl out through the rails d d, and the bars may slide in grooves glp, in the lunder sides of the cross-barscc, as shown in iig. 6. v 0r variations equivalent in eile'ct may be made from this construction,

such as placing the sliding bars b b side by side with, and at the same height as the cross-bars c o. Orthe whole space between the parts B B may hc filledwith a suitable removablev portion properly constructed.

In the vertical edge of one of thc parts A A, oi' the head and foot-boards, are dowels or guide-projections, hilt, fitting into corresponding holes or sockets, in the adjacent edge of the fellow-parts, when closed together for a single bedstcad. And when the bedstead is widened, these dowels fit into holes in one edge of the adjacent movable portions c u., while on the opposite edge of' the said movable portions, are duivels,

ifi, iig. 3, to-iit into the adjacent holes of the other parts, A A. Y l

When the partsA A are closed together, they are secured-thus by hooks or lmsps, l k, on one, fit

ting into eyes or staples, l 1on the other of each adjacent pair. And when the bcdstead is extended, there arc hooks, in an, at one edge of each movable portion a, to fit the oyes l l of each adjacent part A, and at the other edge, are eyes 'n n, to receive the hooks la k, of the other adjacent part A.

Any equivalent of this inode oi' fastening may he employed.

Each movable portion a may be piioted by a wire, as at p, fig. 2, to the bed-bottom, .in such a manner that it can be swung down upon the bottom, as shown in' the same rigore, or raised up into position for use. Or this portion may he wholly removable. Y

The movable portions might slide by the parts A A, but they would no t thus make so good an appearance as by the construction described.v A

The mattress is made in two parte, CD, divided longitudinally, but connected at one edge of' each, as by hinges, so that one part, C, may forni the bottom or seat-cushion, and the other part, D, form theback for a sofa or sett-ee, as shown in Lig. 1.

The part D has, or should have a stiiTening-bar, r, in the upper or outer edge. j

.'lo the ends of this part are secure-d hooks, s s, to iitinto eyes t t, iig. 2, for holdingr the hack upright in place. Or bolts, or other equivalent de\'ice,'may be substituted for this mode of fastening.

The mattress is suitably covered on one side, to give a handsome appearance toit, as a bach and cushion for a sofa.

For a single bed or lonnge, without a back, both parts C D are folded together, and form a double mattress or cushion for the bottom.

For the double bed, thc two parts are spread out, and are made. of the proper width to just fill the bedstead.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to se- `piece, 1, in one division, D, of the two parts, as and cure by Lett-ers Patent, is- ,fOr the purpose herein seb forth.

The construction 0i' the bedstend, with divided AMOS R. HARPER. head and foot-boards, A A, and' bot-tom B B, 1nd CHARLES B. DAKE. movable extension portions a a and b b, as and for -the purposes herein specied. Witnesses:

Also, in combination therewith, the construction 'WM. H. RIFENBURG, and arrangement of the mattressv with a, stiffening- H. A. CARTER. 

